by Tom Bartus

A valid Princeton ID will be
required for admission to Dodds. The lecture will be simulcast in 1, 2 and 16
Robertson for others.

A veteran Swedish diplomat, Blix
served as director-general of the International
Atomic Energy Agency from 1981 to 1997 and was charged with overseeing
inspection of Iraq's nuclear program. He became head of the U.N.
Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission in 2000, running the
commission during the contentious period when the existence and verification of
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was hotly debated by Security Council
members as reason to justify waging war on that country.

Blix retired from that position in 2003, and
currently is the honorary chair of the International Commission on Weapons of
Mass Destruction, which began work in January 2004. In his most recent book,
"Disarming Iraq: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction," he
provides an appraisal of the U.N. Iraq weapons inspection debate that led to
the country's 2003 invasion.